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    libations of righteousness and tern - pcrance ^ under the sanctions of a judgment to come by the man Christ Jesus . Thus forlorn , she is turned out to associate with the religion of Nature . Mr . Milner ' s account of Socinianism reminds me

    of Warburton ' s charge against Malleit , that he had written the Life of Lord Bacon , and forgotten that Bacon was a philosopher , " Mr . Milner has indeed incurred the censure of his own motto , —

    ~~—maleverum eocanwnat omnis Corruptus jiidex * Hor . Yet he must be allowed to have been corrupted in his judgment , not by any criminal purpose . His excuse may be given in his own language respecting Gibbon , ( Pref .

    v . ) of whose misrepresentations he says , that u it is very uncandid to impute that to design , which arises from prejudices * and adds u what object will not this last discolour V Mr . Milner could live in the

    country of Biddle , Ftrmin and Lardner , and be insensible to the virtues which might consist with Socinianism . Yet he would neither persecute for the supposed crime of opinion , nor apologize for real criminality . He thus writes , ( p . SI ) , * Detested be the spirit of persecution , though found in Calvin : detested be murder

    and adultery , though found in the man after God ' s own heart /* It is worthy of remark that Socinianism has been variously treated by divines of the same

    Established Church , from whom might have been expected a unu foimity of censure , as they profess a uniformity of faith . Mr . Milner resolved Socinianism into the mere religion of nature . On the other hand , the learned and philosophizing Dr . fjenry More , ex *

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    pressly censured Sociaianism , or rather Socinus , for referring evea the first principles of religion to divine revelation , and so denying a religion of nature in any proper sense of the term . I refer to one

    of the letters of Dr . H . More , annexed to his Life , ( 8 vo . p . 358 , ) and dated from Christ ' s College , Cambridge , Oct . 25 , 1677- His words are remarkable , " 'Tis most certain , that the Socinians are a

    dry , strait-laced people ; and for want of philosophy , and of that better spirit which inclines men to religion , even from their natural genius , are most-what mere legulious interpreters of the

    scripture ; though they think none comparable to themselves . How meanly they are appointed for these pretensions , the father of

    them may witness against them ; who was of so mean and sunk a genius ) that he denied the existence of God could be proved , or discovered by the light of natural reason . "

    My respected friend Dr . Toulirtin , in the Memoirs of Socinus has quoted ( p . 216 . ) some passage * from his works , upon this subject . To these Dr . H . More probably

    referred . Thu opinion of Socinus has been ably maintained by a divine of the Church of Ireland , Dr , John Ellis , Vicar of St . Catharine ' s , Dublin . His work was published in 1771 , after the author ' s death .

    in 1 vol . 8 vo . entitled , The knowledge of Divine things front Reve * I at ion , not from Reason or Nature . A large account of this then very scarce , but lately , I think , re- ,

    printed , work was given by M r , Thomas Christie , in his Miscellanies , mentioned in your 6 th vol ^ p . 582 . —But I have been led away from Mr . Miliier , withr

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    16 Account of a Publication of the Rev . Joseph Milner * **

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/16/